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IS FIP CONTAGIOUS?

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Last Updated on Sunday, 02 September 2012 16:00

Published on Sunday, 23 August 2009 19:41

Cats with FIP do not appear to be very contagious to cats that they come in contact with.Although this has been based mainly on clinical observations, it has also been confirmed by laboratory studies.Contact transmission has not been observed in experimental settings.Furthermore, cat-to-cat transmission implies that every FIPV isolated from a group outbreak of FIP will be genetically identical. UC Davis researchers have yet to observe this.However, researchers now know that FIPV is present in the feces of some cats with FIP, so horizontal transmission is theoretically possible, and may explain the uncommon epizootics of FIP where a number of cats in the same environment develop FIP within a days or weeks of each other.

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If you are interested in learning more about SOCK FIP and FIP research at U.C. Davis, please contact:

SOCK FIP P.O. Box 602 Davis, CA. 95617

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WHY IS SUPPORT NEEDED NOW?

Although there have been over 500 clinical and research publications on FIP since 1963, solutions to the disease have eluded researchers. However, that situation is now changing:the sequencing of the entire feline genome is almost complete and will provide researchers with a set of tools of unprecedented power to answer some of the important remaining questions about FIP.

HISTORY OF SOCK

In 1974, Save Our Cats and Kittens (SOCK) was organized as a nonprofit group.It was founded by cat lovers from the San Francisco Bay Area to aid in much-needed feline leukemia virus (FeLV) research at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.FeLV infection was the cause of death of up to one-third of all sick cats during the 1960s and 1970s.